European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 9 Danube Oad from Danube is tunnels along the Danube add to the Scenic Beauty e trip which eventually brings one to famous Schloss Ingen ancestral Home of Prince Hohenzollern and last the Vichy French government. Sires galore correspondent ver dreamed a Ament made its Headquarters in the Castle. In the great a of Fine Art a a Hall you will see huge Gobelin tapestries Worth millions banquets Lor to Llars and then you will visit the Armor Hall which re thrill out of 11 me of the metropolitan museum collection to which Fine of Prince to matter of fact several of the Prince s Best pieces were he last Capi when the family finances were pinched by Germany s eluded in the a stantly High inheritance taxes when the present Prince s _ Valley of the tanning to he a a orders to the orders in will assured the ites. Civilians Sis maps by Colegrove Ismail Stream nation. There i be itself but authorities to town of Sig perched on a he Middle of i a and a Cpl Eside a huge j Hohenzollern Lith Century to the Little and ask for e father and the Prince s e about what however to is. First you Deal of Fine you will round on the u before you sorts of China n which has lie world Over o downstairs instruments err Haug is stairs to see t All during i the Vichy of scr died m 1928. This Hall of Armor and arms even in a foes horse Armor and has a fascinating Story about it which 14all leave for Herr Haug to Tell you. After the Armor Hall you May perhaps be shown the Library Stii the rare hand illuminated volumes collected by several Ges rations of sigm Ringens. Before you leave the Castle be Sti to ask Haug to explain the relationship Between the a a Rollern sigm Ringens roman Catholic and the one time protestant German ruling family Hohenzollern Olio o the Castle you passed near Hechinger. The Young princes John George and Emanuel Joseph Are cousins of former King Michael of Romania who is Aiso a Hohenzollern sigm Ringen. At this Point in tha tour you May either return to Stuttgart or time permitting take the Road to Beuron following Down the Danube. You turn left in sigm Ringen just before the French army Parade grounds which you passed on the Way in. I Olow the signs to Beuron watching carefully for the Sharp right in a Little Village called Leiz. You should always have the River in is fit on your right. This Road is just fair but Okay for an average 35 to 40 Miles per hour. At Beuron you will find one of Germany s two covered Bridges and the very Beautiful Benedictine monastery to be reached by crossing this Bridge. Men Are allowed to visit the monastery. Women however Are not permitted Entrance. I am sorry to add that this is not the Home of the bottled Benedictine which comes from an Abbey in trance. Leaving the monastery you climb up the Road away from the Danube heading toward Tutt Lingen. When you reach the top of the Hill turn Sharp left following the Road marked Tut Lingen Ober Fridinger. At Fridinger where you rejoin the Danube turn right and follow signs to digit Heim and Balinger. This is a second class Road but again not uncomfortable. At Balinger you Are again on the main Road to Hechinger and Tubin Gestand Home. The whole trip is a bit More than 150 Miles. Of note to roman Catholic tourists you Are Welcome at the big Maringer Castle Chapel for services which begin at 6 . And continue hourly with the last High mass at 11 a. M. The Louir can be made comfortably however if you Start from Stuttgart after the regular morning worship in either the protestant or Catholic chapels on the Post. The author stands at the huge Entrance to sigm Ringen Castile talking with two Young princes John George 15, and Emanuel Joseph 19. They Are not Broth ers but cousins. The Castle contains Many Art treasures. The ancestral Home of a Rince Hohenzollern contains Many rare Art objects As Well As a Library of some 90.000 books. Kerr Haug will guide you through great Halls where old Church Carv Ings and paintings " hang on the Walls. In one Hall a collection of primitive prehistoric instruments and Armor Are to be seen. Is photo by Lange b or cute Sagaden trip 1 by Julia Edwards. Staff correspondent Munich april 23 is Don to let the size of the map dismay you. It is possible to see Berchtesgaden in one Day. To climb up to the Eagle s nest to take the slides Down into the Salt mine to Circle Germany s Only Glacier Lake with time left for a Glass of wine on a sunny veranda. The whole tour inducing a trip up the predicts Tull by Cable car is 227 Miles. To Berchtesgaden and Back by the Short route is 175. Heading toward the military government on oreans Strasse pass the East Railroad station and take the first left turn through the underpass for the a Hway to the Salzburg autobahn. The turnoff for the Scenic route to Merrhl Essadee is 68 Miles Down the autobahn at Tanun Stcin. It is marked by a yellow sign in the Center of the Highway and by a German gasoline station on the right. After taking the turnoff go neither right nor left but straight ahead. At several Forks the signs to Berchtesgaden Point in two directions. Follow the yellow Scenic route to Berchtesgaden posters. An excellent Road winds through the Mountain Valley offering a constantly changing View of Snow capped mountains Flower covered Hills haughty Cliffs and Mountain streams. After passing the Railroad station at Berchtesgaden turn left up the Hill to the special services office. This is one place where a guide is needed and there Are 10 of them on Call who will accompany tourists in their cars. At this writing the Eagle s nest because of Snow is not open to visitors but will be open before May 15. Jeeps but not sedans Are allowed on the narrow five mile ascent. Trucks with expert Drivers regularly shuttle up the Mountain from the special services office. Gift to Hitler Martin Bormann built the Road a unique engineering feat and the charming House perched above where eagles Roost As the state s birthday present to Adolf Hitler in 1939. Six thousand men worked on it for 14 months. Constructed at a Cost of 50,000,000 Marks it was visited Only five times by the fuehrer. Hitler himself lived half Way up the Mountain at Ober Salzberg. T ruin of his Home smashed by Allied bombs on april 28, 1945, is surrounded by the rubble left of houses he built for Bormann Mussolini and other top nazis. An under ground Tunnel connects them with a hotel which has two floors built underground. Berchtesgaden founded in the twelfth Century and Long a Well known resort first saw Hitler in 3924 when he came from Landsberg prison and finished mein kampf in a wooden hut on the Mountainside. Of All with which he was connected Only the hut remained undamaged. Lunch is served from 12 to 1 30 o clock at the Berchtey Gadener Hof for officers and civilians and at the Post hotel for pm. People who fear dark holes have no worries about a trip into the 400-year-old Salt mine. It is electric lighted. Tourists dress up in wired Black bloomers and Skull Caps partly to save tit air clothes. Besides it s traditional. They straddle a motor Scooter and Are whisked upward inside the Moun Tain. They slide Down two toboggans into a deserted mine and can go boating on an underground Salt Lake while the motor Scooter catches up with them. Guides show mine one should Rake a special services guide along to the Salt mine which is a mile Down the Road toward Salzburg. The Price is 20 cents per person for the mine 30 cents for the Eagle s nest. Salt mine Tours Are run at 10 . And 2 . Drive Back past the Railroad station and take the first turn to the left four Miles to the Koenigsbe. Local residents claim it is 780 feet deep in spots the deepest Lake in Ger Many. At the Edge of the Lake is the pm s resort. Boats can be hired for a trip Down the lonely Waters hemmed in by High mountains. / return to the main Road and turn left. Where the Scenic route Forks right the Motorist can Fork left to the Hin Forsee the Only Glacier Lake in Germany and heralded As the photographer s Paradise. M time is Shoft return to Munich by the Scenic a route 30 Miles longer leads Back through Berchtesgaden up .h2 Hill past the Berchtesgaden or Hof to bad re Chenhall. A left turn across a Bridge leads to the Cable station for the predicts Tull. The red Cable cars go 5,292 feet up the Moun Tain in 10 minutes. At the top is the resort hotel for All americans with a View of Austria As Well As Germany. The ride costs 30 cents. Cars run frequently. Return across the Bridge turn left and follow the signs for Munich. There is a winding Detour through the town and a straight stretch to a Fork. There the signs say Only Salzburg right and Frei Lassing rough Road left. Take the rough Road. It is Only a Short stretch to the autobahn. Bad Reichenau 1. View from the Cable car. 2, ruins of Hitler s House at Ober Salzberger. 3. Scenic route to Burch i Tes Gaden. 4. The special service office where one 1 should get a guide for a tour of the Well known i resort. Is photos by Betz
